Jared: Red, Hot, & Blue, Book 4 by Cat Johnson Page A

closed his eyes and groaned. “Shit. Bobby drove my truck here. He’s outside with no ride back to his car in town and he’s on duty.”
    Snuggling closer against him, Mandy spoke into his chest. “He can take your truck back then. You’re not going to need it. Or even better, Christy can drive Bobby in the rental car. I want her to get to know him. She’s going to be on the crew assigned to him.”
    Admiration that Mandy had gone from weeping woman to hard-ass boss in the blink of an eye aside, he couldn’t help but wonder who she was talking about that would be shadowing his best friend twenty-four-seven. “Who’s Christy?”
    “My associate producer. The one who convinced me to let you in the door when I didn’t want to.”
    “Well then, I owe her already for that. I might as well owe her for driving Bobby back to town too.” Bobby should thank him for it. Christy was cute. Just Bobby’s type. Then an unpleasant thought hit Jared. “You really weren’t going to let me in?”
    Mandy pursed her lips. “I guess I would have given in eventually. Either that, or you would have broken down the door.”
    He laughed. “You think you know me pretty well, don’t ya?”
    “Mmm, hmm.” She nodded.
    “Then tell me what I’m thinking right now.”
    She smiled. “I’m sitting in your lap. I can feel exactly what you’re thinking about right now.”
    Actually, he had been about to tell her he loved her, but he decided to save that for some romantic moonlit night in the near future. One where she wasn’t fresh from crying and Sue Ann was a long-distant memory.
    Instead, Jared picked her up and carried her to the bed. “Can’t hide anything from you, can I?”
    Her arms clasped around his neck. “No, you can’t. You better remember that.”
    “I surely will, darlin’. I surely will.” He smiled.
    He had the woman he loved in his arms and a nice big bed beneath them finally. Life, he decided, was good.

About the Author
     
    As an award-winning author of contemporary erotic romance in genres including military, cowboy, ménage and paranormal, Cat Johnson uses her computer so much she wore the letters off the keyboard within a year. She is known for her creative marketing and research practices. Consequently, Cat owns an entire collection of camouflage shoes for book signings and a fair number of her consultants wear combat or cowboy boots for a living. In her real life, she’s been a marketing manager, professional harpist, bartender, tour guide, radio show host, Junior League president, sponsor of a bull riding rodeo cowboy, wife and avid animal lover.
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Social butterfly and a soldier in the Special Forces—a match made in…bed.
     
    Jimmy
    © 2010 Cat Johnson
     
    Red Hot & Blue, Book 3
    Special Forces gave Jimmy Gordon the undercover skills of a chameleon, but nothing prepared him for Amelia Monroe-Carrington, the governor’s hot, redheaded daughter. She thought she was seducing a banquet waiter, and he let her.
    His next assignment pulled him from her bed and into the worst six months of his life. Images of Lia were what kept him alive imprisoned in Kosovo, and even now he’s home and recovered, she’s still in his head.
    For her father’s political career, Lia has always done the appropriate thing, right down to dating a senator’s son. Her one rebellious act, an incredible night with a totally inappropriate man, ended when he disappeared. And then never called.
    When they unexpectedly meet again, the pull between them is stronger than ever, tempting Lia to stop sacrificing her own